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Bryan Liriano: A 6-Week Velocity-Deficient Athlete Case Study
At the beginning of an athlete’s training journey interventions can and should be very simple and will often lead to impressive results. As an athlete advances and begins to achieve basic abilities, such as maximal strength levels, finding weak links becomes more...
Extensive to Intensive Programming for High Velocity Throwing, Part 1
Throwing velocity is undeniably important for getting opportunities to play at the highest level and is often one of the important factors in determining the amount of money made by a pitcher. While some may still believe that throwing velocity is innate and cannot be...
KPIs, Averages, and Individualization Related to Throwing Velocity
In all athletic endeavors key performance indicators, or KPIs, exist that help guide the training and development of athletes. High velocity throwing is no different in this regard. KPIs exist to help us compare ourselves or our athletes to elite level performers and...
The Case for Waiting to Use Maximal Effort Overload and Underload Throwing
You’re training a 15-year-old pitcher and you’ve been using a high intensity throwing program with overload and underload balls and he’s gained 5 mph in just a few months. Great, right? But, was that necessary and where are you going from here? At this point, it’s...
What Is Reactive Strength and How Does It Affect Throwing Velocity?
Physical capacity and mechanical efficiency are both critical in producing the highest possible velocity for an individual pitcher. I’ve covered the importance of lead leg block previously so in this article I’m going to focus on a specific piece of physical capacity...
Relaxation, Tension, and High Velocity Throwing
I've talked a lot about how increasing muscle tension and rate of force development is critical for high velocity throwing, but how does relaxing a muscle impact performance? Coaches have long known the ability to rapidly relax a muscle before and after a muscle...
Chris Perry: From 86 mph to 93 mph
Chris reached out to us in the summer of 2019, topping at 86mph and looking to take his pitching performance to the next level heading into his senior year of high school. Chris and his dad made the trek from Illinois to Baltimore to get an in-person assessment and...
Horizontal Abduction-Is More Always Better?
All pitchers have heard certain mechanical cues and common phrases used by teammates and coaches everywhere. Along with hip/shoulder separation, “scap loading” is one of those phrases. Scap loading is a phrase originally coined by Paul Nyman and refers to the...
Eccentric Training: Specific Methods Determine Adaptations, Part 1
Every sport relies on the ability to abruptly decelerate. The specific context of that deceleration may differ a bit, but it is present in every sport. If you want to throw gas, jump high, or juke someone out of their shoes, you have to be able to stop suddenly. This...
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Bryan Liriano: A 6-Week Velocity-Deficient Athlete Case Study
At the beginning of an athlete’s training journey interventions can and should be very simple and will often lead to impressive results. As an athlete advances and begins to achieve basic abilities, such as maximal strength levels, finding weak links becomes more...